On 03-18-97 MARLA ROMESBURG wrote to KENNETH NEWMAN... 
 
 KN> And at this point one of us must mention Tommy Bolin. I 
 KN> don't have anything to say about him, I just thought I'd 
 
 MR> You said enough....I think that Tommy was with The James Gang with Joe 
 MR> Walsh. 
 
        He was Joe Walsh's replacement, I believe. 
 
        Some of Bolin's stuff was really good, IMO. My faves are 
        his playing on Billy Cobham's _Spectrum_ album and the 
        playing he did on Alphonse Mouzon's solo album. They were 
        both famous fusion drummers and it was a suprise when 
        they chose Bolin rather than a jazz or fusion player. 
        Bolin carries it off well in both cases. Like Paul Kossof 
        from Free he had an unerring instinct for tastefulness 
        and played the instrument lyrically, infusing his 
        phrasings with something very much like vocal inflection. 
 
 MR> It was a big shame to have such talent as Tommy's fade away. 
 
        Well, unfortunatelly, like Kossof he also had a fondness 
        for heroin, though Kossof's official cause of death was 
        falling asleep on an airplane. 
 
        ObProg: Mike Oldfield's main guitar influence was Paul 
        Kossof. Weird but true. 
 
                                Cheers, 
                                Kenneth 
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